Preliminary Internal Medicine Internship
The Preliminary Internal Medicine Program is an integral component of the Department of Medicine’s GME Community and adds a valuable breadth of professional diversity to our intern class. There is great benefit to future internal medicine specialists in sharing their formative early clinical experiences with future colleagues in radiology, dermatology, neurology, and other disciplines. Likewise, we feel that the optimum experience in internal medicine for an intern destined for a career in neurology or other non-internal medicine disciplines is a full immersion clinical year alongside medical intern colleagues at every step.
Most of our Preliminary intern class each year remain at Brown for their advanced residency training in neurology, anesthesia, dermatology, radiology, ophthalmology, and other disciplines. This promotes the collegial relationship enjoyed by medical housestaff with their former internship classmates now in other residency programs.
Our Preliminary intern class is fully integrated with the rotations of our three-year Internal Medicine house staff. The Preliminary IM schedule is designed to provide a strong foundation of internal medicine experience that will prepare physicians for further specialty training.
- A General Medicine Ward rotation may be substituted for Night Float rotation in any of the three years.
- Preliminary Interns are not required to have a continuity clinic as part of their intern year.
- Rotations are in 2- and 4-week blocks and the schedule will follow a similar pattern to IM interns who are an on 6+2 schedule with elective taking the place of ambulatory/Y blocks
For instructions on how to apply to specific Preliminary IM tracks at Brown click here.